The sun rises

Hallelujah, I am feeling good again. Finally, I feel basically human.

Even up until yesterday morning I was still feeling pretty average, and then yesterday, around mid morning, I suddenly started feeling better. I haven't really looked back since then. I mentioned earlier in the week that when you are sick you know that you will feel better again soon, but that seemed like a long way off on Wednesday. Now that I am feeling a lot better it is like I have stepped out from under a cloud. I am actually feeling really good right now, like I could go outside and start running (don't worry I am not going to).

So, the blood tests. How did they go?

Well like I said yesterday, the impression I was given by the clinic is that it wasn't anything urgent and it really wasn't. Good information but not life threatening. The reason the doctor wanted to see me was because one of the tests had come back indicating that I had some inflammation somewhere in my body and another test indicating infection. My gut feel all week has been that I have had a throat infection. The doctor hadn't picked up anything on Monday, but all week my throat has been really swollen and sore. More so than I would usually expect with a cold. These test results would seem to back up my theory. Given it has been an infection, it does make me wonder what some antibiotics might have done for me, but I am not going to dwell on that to long since it seems to have cleared fairly quickly (so far).

If it has been a throat infection it also means that it was something different to what I have been suffering from over the past few weeks. Which means I have had two illnesses back to back. Wow, somebody hates me. It also makes me wonder where it came from. To be honest though the list of possible sources for this infection is so long it almost isn't worth thinking of.

Hopefully this is now behind me and I can get back on track. I tell you what, I better start training ridiculously hard to try and make up for lost time. In fact what am I wasting time here typing for, I should probably be on the bike right now...

Just kidding.

I feel physically that I am at the point that I can probably start thinking about training now. In fact I might even head out on the bike in the morning. Some of the Break Your Limits guys who raced at Ironman WA last weekend are having an easy spin around the river tomorrow morning. Keeping up with guys so sore that they could cry seems like about my pace, so I might head out and join them. I will play it by ear though. Relapse is not where I want to go.

I am so looking forward to getting training again though. All week I have felt so bad that the idea of exercise made my brain hurt. Now that I am feeling like exercise might be an option again I realise how much I have missed it.